If you wake up at 3 a.m. to the sound of someone forcing your door open with a crowbar, that’s going to be Mike Vago settling a score with you for stepping on his turf.

“When you think about people shopping, most of the time they’re not picking up or touching a lot of things that they don’t end up putting in their cart and taking with them. Whereas, in a movie theater, somebody was literally sitting in that seat for multiple hours just before you got it.”

This is the second major buy this year. Texas is #2 in terms of the Gulf Coast shrimp catch. Senator John Cornyn is in an unexpectedly close race and Biden is also unexpected close to Trump in the race. But I’m sure this is just coincidental.

Where am I supposed to go for my Tick news? Serafinowicz Weekly is sadly lacking on “Which absurd villian are you?” quizzes.

I think by the time Napster came along you could count on one hand the number of albums that worked as a cohesive set of songs. There was a lot of filler, weird songs written by the bassist thrown in so he could get a cut of the songwriting royalties, alternate unfinished acoustic version of the hit track ....

He’s identified himself that way. I think 90% of self identified libertarians, maybe more, are using the term as cover for something else.

I’m struggling to think of when recorded music ever made much money for most bands. There have always been a few top tier bands which had the leverage to negotiate good new contracts, and a few lucky songwriters who got tons of royalties from a surprise hit, but touring has been the only option for most to make a…

The range of music at my college was really narrow, both in terms of bands that came, what people listened to, and what the college radio station played. The idea of, say, Mexican pop music was just unthinkable among the taste setters. You could get all the Grateful Dead you could stomach, but Zydeco, George Clinton,…

There is a counterpoint to the argument that people won’t pay for stuff they can get for free. While Napster was going strong, people were paying billions of dollars for ringtones, which were also available for free.

A lot of people listen to a lot of music in ways that compression and less than perfect quality doesn’t matter. If you’re in your car or playing in your kitchen while you’re cooking or taking the dog for a walk, there is so much other noise intruding that it just doesn’t make sense to get hung up on it.

I think there is a common thread among Y2K truthers, climate change deniers, and COVID gaslighters. The “opposing view” section cites one deceased libertarian academic Y2K denier who also was a climate change denier. Richard Epstein, the libertarian academic who insisted that COVID would only kill another 500 people…

“But naysayers, fond as they are of saying nay, pointed out that countries that did almost nothing to avoid Y2K issues, and institutions that didn’t have the resources to spend (like small businesses and public schools), still had very few problems.”

I think for the sake of Joe Flaherty alone it is a shame this didn’t get renewed.

I heard an interview with Norton and it sounds like his commitment to making Motherless Brooklyn took up a lot of his time over the years that potentially could have gone to other projects.

Carrie Coon and Mary Elizabeth Winstead were great. I thought Ewan McGregor in dual roles as feuding brothers dragged things down, as did the police chief who fought with Coon. He filled the same purpose as Bob Odenkirk in Season 1, but there were understandable reasons why Chief Oswalt was in the way. In Season 3,…

I think the difference is that in 1999, the banking industry saw the economics of a Y2K simply in terms of avoiding the costs of system breakdowns. IT people saw it in terms of profit from selling brand new database systems to replace the creaky old 1970s stuff.

The problem with the Weeping Angels as long running baddies is that by definition they can’t interact with anyone. Of all the low-personality Doctor Who villains, and there are a bunch, they win the prize for the least personality.

I know I am in the minority, but I hate Lion King in so many ways. Scar was justified in killing Mufasa, Scar should have eaten Simba, and the hyenas should have eaten Scar.

Your point 3 is responsible for point 1, and I think one of the old time studio heads would have shut that down in 30 seconds with a snappy one liner before going off to a three martini lunch followed by an afternoon cheating on his long suffering wife.

Joe Pera springing for Baba O’Riley was a much better buy.